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UNITED Sra'rns PATENT rmcn HENRY B. WALBRIDGE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO. ALICE C. WALBRIDGE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MODES OF ATTACI-IING BUTTONS, &c., TO FABIRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1133,273, dated November 19, 1872.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY B. WALBRIDGE, of the city ot'Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attaching Buttons, Hooks, and similar articles to Clothing; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description oi' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specitication.

rFhe object of my invention is to dispense with the use of thread, by which buttons, hooks, clasps, 86e., are ordinarily attached to clothin g, and it consists in making the metallic object to be attached with a broad dat disk, which is coated with shellac and applied to the garment. Heat is then applied, when .the two become firmly united together. A convenient way of applying the heat is by an ordinary tailors iron, but any Way which Will melt the shellac and cause it to penetrate the fibres o f the cloth will answer. The union is very firm, for shellac is unaffected by moisture, and its adhesion to both the metal and the fabric is very close. The invention is particularly useful for the attachment ot' large metallic hooks, clasps, or buttons, to heavy overgarments,

where the strain is great; also to attach suspender hooks or buttons, which are extremely `liable to come oft' at the most inconvenient times. In my invention when the hook comes oli' the cloth comes with it. The buttons, hooks, or clasps can be made as ornamental as is desired, and of as expensive material, as

v it is immaterial What metal is used. The essence of the invention does not consist in the shape of the hook, button, or clasp, provided it has a surface for the adhesion of the shellac, nor in the material of Which it is composed 5 but solely in the use of shellac to form the connection between the broad metallic surface,

junction. In Fig. 4 the disk ot' the hook is included between two thicknesses ot' fabric, when it is desired not to have the metallic disk visible. Fig. 5 shows a button with a broad base or disk attached in a similar manner. Fig. 6 is another variety of the same.

I am aware that shellac has been used for uniting the ends of curtain-cord, as Well as in eementing together the parts of certain articles ot' jewelry. This I do not claim; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The mode of attaching hooks, buttons, or equivalent fastenings to garments by means ot' shellac and the application of heat, substantially as speciiied. f

v HENRY B. WALBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

ALICE C. WALBRIDGE, O. C. MoULToN. 

